Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >microsoft.public.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - DOM Vs XPath + ancestor : whats the point? >Thread Next - Re: DOM Vs XPath + ancestor : whats the point? Re: DOM Vs XPath + ancestor : whats the point?To: NULL Date: 8/2/2004 3:57:00 PM rvj wrote: > While I understand that XSLT exists for transforming documents from one > format to another, surely XPATH should be able to perform what is > effectively a filtering operation ie only retaining the nodes you do want . XPath is a language for addressing parts of XML documents. It just allows you to select a subset of a document. Then it's up to you how to process the selection result. > In other words the format of the file does not change - as its just a > subset In general subsetting of a tree is a tree transformation. -- Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP] http://blog.tkachenko.com | ||||||
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